The recent measles outbreak in the United States has defied norms. The disease, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared eliminated in 2000, has resurfaced in recent years, with the number of reported cases rising from 120 in 2017 to 372 in 2018. In just the first fourRead More

In America today, there are few issues more divisive and controversial than abortion. While the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade deeming laws that criminalize or restrict access to abortion as unconstitutional has thus far successfully defended abortion rights in all 50 states, anti-abortion advocates have consistently turnedRead More

The death penalty is a costly, outdated, and unnecessary means of punishment that must be eliminated. While capital punishment may be a longstanding consequence in many countries, modern America has no reason to continue the practice of putting criminals to death.            Morality, of course, is a major issue of theRead More

A compulsory voting policy undermines the liberty that voting is supposed to represent. Moreover, a government-imposed system that forces people to take the time out of their day to vote for issues that they often don’t understand or don’t care about is damaging to the political process.         In theRead More

On September 30, the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a revamping of the nearly 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The deal came as a victory for President Trump, who frequently calls NAFTA a “disaster” and aimed to renegotiate itRead More

The past few years have seen rapid changes in attitudes and legislation concerning the use of marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes. Currently, 9 states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational use, 22 have decriminalized the drug, and 31 states have legalized medicinal use. Still, thousands of peopleRead More

Over the past few weeks, Amazon has laid off hundreds of employees from its headquarters in Seattle. While no official reason was given, in a statement, Amazon claimed that the firings were “head count adjustments” and that such adjustments included “small reductions in a couple of places and aggressive hiringRead More

Since late December of 2017, sporadic protests have erupted in Iran challenging the current government. The protests are the biggest in the country since 2009, when large demonstrations sprung up over claims that the country’s presidential elections were manipulated in favor of the incumbent candidate.The current protests specifically challenge Iran’sRead More

On November 5, gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, clad in all black tactical gear and armed with a semi-automatic tactical rifle, entered the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and began firing on churchgoers, killing 25 people and an unborn child and wounding 20 others. The shooting was the fifthRead More